the cat is calm, sometimes calm, when she’s working, when she’s tugged into something that requires her full concentration. there’s a promise she makes she’ll only be a moment, scrolling patiently through her phone with a small notebook tossed askew on the couch’s arm. she briefly raises a finger to tap an errant number and swipe something on the screen —
she only partly feels that brush of sensation. it’s light, a charming thing, how the definition of muscle tenses responsively — and then it’s a thing that stutters and stammers mere moments later when the most incredulously unhinged moan skitters out of her mouth. oh, fuck. it isn’t humiliation that rises swiftly in her cheeks, but a look on her face like she’s silently shocked by the betrayal of her own mouth. she swiftly bites down on her knuckles, feels the edge of a sharp canine smother the puff of a laugh. just a breath, that’s all, around the shape of a fist holding on that startling noise.
“i— uh—“
for once, she’s speechless.
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